Night Support Worker

Job details

The Ideal Candidate:

The skills you’ll need

A positive and caring person, who is confident and able to deliver individualised care and support in line with each of our residents support guidelines. Communicate and engage effectively with our service users, their families and colleagues, taking part in social activities and promoting their independence and dignity. Strong interpersonal and working relationship skills. Good understanding of the disabilities, health and social care needs of our service users and assist those who have mobility or continence needs, using the appropriate aids and equipment. Provide appropriate levels of care and support to ensure that personal hygiene needs are met, (washing, dressing, bathing, using the toilet). If you are starting or returning to a career in care we will support you with an apprenticeship. As the role requires work with vulnerable people and delivering personal care and support, your employment will be subject to appropriate pre-employment checks including references and a Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

About The Company

Why Shaw healthcare?

Orchard House is a friendly care home in the village of Withington, a 15 minute drive from Hereford. The home provides long and short stay respite for 28 residents with dementia care needs and also has a dementia day care service.

We are one of the UK’s leading Health and Social care providers who deliver a wide spectrum of care in a variety of purpose-built care environments; care homes for the elderly, specialist dementia units, mental health units and low secure psychiatric hospitals.

We highly value the wonderful contribution of our employees who stay with Shaw healthcare. They enable a high level of continuity of care for our service users. Continuing relationships between our employees and service users and their families are fundamental to the quality of the care we provide.

We recognise this in our Employee of the Month programme, local Shining Stars and our famous Annual Star Awards. We also provide an Annual Loyalty Bonus Scheme with a bonus of an additional weeks pay, at the end of a completed year, based on your average pay over the year - and our unique biannual incentive scheme paid to all staff in our services that meet our high quality standards.

Shaw healthcare have an excellent employee benefit package, which includes: